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Quick Sterling City Council meeting includes several actions

Council approves additional $1 million in projects for 2016

The Sterling City Council made quick work of their agenda at Tuesday's regular meeting, with Sterling Fire Chief Kurt Vogel filling in for the absent City Manager Don Saling.

Liquor license applications for Ay! Chihuahua Mexican Family Restaurant and Sam and Louie's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria were approved without any public comment or council discussion.

City council member Patrick Lawson noted later in the meeting that the pizzeria was featured in Colorado Biz magazine, and co-owner Mike Schaefer said they are planning to open the restaurant in mid-May.

The council also approved a special event permit for this weekend's "Death by Chocolate" fundraiser for the Business and Professional Women of Sterling. This is the third year for the event, BPW Vice President Sarah Matthews told the council.

An appropriations ordinance for an additional $2,352,190 this year also passed unanimously. The appropriations include over $1.3 million in purchase orders — $1.2 million from the water fund — that were open in 2015 and will be paid in 2016. Also included are nearly $800,000 in other General Fund expenses that have come up since the 2016 budget was approved, and more than $250,000 in projects from the Hotel Tax Fund. The two biggest projects to come from the General Fund are a Safe Routes to School project, at $268,836, and the N. Fifth Street Improvement Project, which the council approved in December 2015 at $486,196. The city has received a grant for the Safe Routes to School project for $215,108, as well as a 2014 donation from Tallgrass for $2,000, so the city's expense will be $53,778.

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In other business:

• The council voted 7-0 to accept the bid from Platinum Technology, LLC for information technology support services on retainer. The $9,450 monthly fee was the only bid received; and

• The council also approved unanimously to accept an amended bid from A-1 Chipseal Company for a surface treatment project in the amount of $287,180.42. Public Works Director George Good noted after the meeting that the treatment will be applied to various city streets that have had improvements in the last five to seven years as preventative maintenance.

During their half-hour long meeting, the council also heard a report from Vogel on the fire department activities, and Human Resources Director Bob Brown introduced new part-time library employee Alanna Singer. Brown noted that the fire department also has a new firefighter, Cody Adams.

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